Byron York thread spotlights Liz Cheney theatrics to show what a joke the 1/6 hearings have become

Doug P. | 1:25 PM on July 01, 2022

The latest January 6th Commission “bombshell” of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony eventually blew up in the faces of committee members after Secret Service agents who were actually with Trump in the car that day said they’d be willing to testify under oath that what Hutchinson claimed never happened.

The committee’s theatrics — specifically in this case regarding Rep. Liz Cheney — has gotten to be too much for the Washington Examiner’s Byron York:

When Liz Cheney got to the tune-in-for-the-next-exciting-episode portion of the recent J6 committee hearing, starring Cassidy Hutchinson, Cheney read two examples of what she suggested was witness tampering by TrumpWorld. 1/6

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 1, 2022

It’s quite clear the committee has been coached by producers:

First, Cheney read 'how one witness described phone calls from people interested in that witness' testimony.' Then, Cheney quoted from a description of 'a call received by one of our witnesses,' in that witness' own words. 2/6

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 1, 2022

Cheney offered no details. No names, no timing, no context, no story, no nothing. Except that it was very, very concerning. And tune in for the next episode! 3/6

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 1, 2022

So what do we learn now? That both examples were from the same witness–and that that very witness was sitting right in front of Cheney the whole time! It was Cassidy Hutchinson. 4/6

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 1, 2022

Cheney could have asked Hutchinson about it right then and there. But she instead chose to do the TV tease and leave everybody hanging. 5/6

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 1, 2022